Subtitled "A Novel of the South During Reconstruction," this 1879 bestseller, by a participant in that great social experiment, is the barely fictionalized account of the career of a Northern lawyer in North Carolina after the Civil War. A champion of the poor and landless of any race, and a keen observer of the dilemmas facing uneducated Negroes in the postwar period, Tourge offers us an important eyewitness account of one of the most tumultuous eras of American history, one that continues to influence the course of the American experiences of race and class to this day.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1880 Edition.

The Veteran and His Pipe By Albion W. Tourgee

It's sunset in rural North Carolina just after the Civil War. Lily's parents are away when an anonymous note warns that the Klan intends to kill her father that very night. To rescue him, Lily must ride her father's thoroughbred stallion on the same roads over which a hundred Klansmen from three counties are traveling. That's Lily's brave ride. Review: "The night ride of young Lily Servosse is one of the finest and most thrilling incidents that has ever been told in history or romance."-San Francisco Chronicle

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!

This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature.

This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature.

1880. To which is added, by the same author, Part II. The Invisible Empire [Ku Klux Klan]: a concise review of the epoch on which the tale is based. With many thrilling personal narratives and startling facts of life at the South, never before narrated for the general reader. All fully authenticated. By Albion W. Tourgee, late judge of the Superior Court of North Carolina, author of the code with notes, Digest of cited cases, etc. A Fool's Errand was a popular novel based on Tourgee's experiences as a carpetbagger lawyer and political judge in the South during Reconstruction. This best seller was proclaimed as a significant and unusually original portrayal, criticism and analysis of postwar southern society.

1880. To which is added, by the same author, Part II. The Invisible Empire [Ku Klux Klan]: a concise review of the epoch on which the tale is based. With many thrilling personal narratives and startling facts of life at the South, never before narrated for the general reader. All fully authenticated. By Albion W. Tourgee, late judge of the Superior Court of North Carolina, author of the code with notes, Digest of cited cases, etc. A Fool's Errand was a popular novel based on Tourgee's experiences as a carpetbagger lawyer and political judge in the South during Reconstruction. This best seller was proclaimed as a significant and unusually original portrayal, criticism and analysis of postwar southern society.

A classic of American political fiction first published in 1880, a mere three years after Reconstruction officially ended, "Bricks Without Straw" offers an inside view of the struggle to create a just society in the post-slavery South. It is unique among the white-authored literary works of its time in presenting Reconstruction through the eyes of emancipated slaves. As a leading Radical Republican, the author, Albion W. Tourgee, played a key role in drafting a democratized Constitution for North Carolina after the Civil War, and he served as a state superior court judge during Reconstruction. Tourgee worked closely with African Americans and poor whites in the struggle to transform North Carolina's racial and class politics. He saw the ravages of the Ku Klux Klan firsthand, worked to bring the perpetrators of Klan atrocities to justice, and fought against what he called the "counter-revolution" that destroyed Reconstruction.

"Bricks Without Straw" is Tourgee's fictionalized account of how Reconstruction was sabotaged. It is a chilling picture of violence against African Americans condoned, civil rights abrogated, constitutional amendments subverted, and electoral fraud institutionalized. Its plot revolves around a group of North Carolina freedpeople who strive to build new lives for themselves by buying land, marketing their own crops, setting up a church and school, and voting for politicians sympathetic to their interests, until Klan terrorism and the ascendancy of a white supremacist government reduce them to neo-slavery. This edition of "Bricks Without Straw" is enhanced by Carolyn L. Karcher's introduction, which sets the novel in historical context and provides an overview of Albion W. Tourgee's career, a chronology of the significant events of both the Reconstruction era and Tourgee's life, and explanatory notes identifying actual events fictionalized in the novel.